This photo of a whale under a boat reminds me of…
…Terry Fan’s The Whale.
photography
I am a time traveler apparently
My friend Lou saw this picture on Reddit and wondered how I got into a picture of the Brighton Swimming Club from 1863. For what it’s worth, I guess I am also John Steinbeck.
1940s photos from the circus
Not as awesome as the 1940s NYC pictures I posted this weekend, but still awesome! Here, via the Atlantic, are 1940s pictures from Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Color photos of 1940s New York City
Charles Cushman took color photographs of New York City in the early 1940s, the Daily Mail posted a lot of them. They’re so great. Click through to love them.
Via @FelixSalmon / Stellar
Pictures of the Yakuza
Belgian photographer, Anton Kusters, spent 2 years photographing a Yakuza family in Japan. Pretty unique pictures because the Yakuza aren’t generally keen on being photographed. More pictures from that project here. And a couple years ago, the Guardian had a slide show, too.
Via Brain Picker / Stellar
Watching the paint dry
I always wanted to know what would happen if a truck carrying printer cartridges crashed, and it happened in my relative backyard!
Approximately 16,000 pounds of ink cartridges from the Flint Group, an Indianapolis-based company selling printing and packaging products, was bound for a newspaper company in Portland, Maine. Red, blue, and yellow ink cartridges were inside the truck, but Ferson said there is no evidence the yellow ink was released.
Via Wired
Photo of the year
The 2010 photo retrospectives have begun, but for my money, the photo of the year is this picture of a monkey saving a puppy from a gas pipeline explosion in Nanjing, China.
We can all agree on this one, right?
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Update: Just found out the picture isn’t from this year. It might be a monkey saving a puppy, but it’s from 2006. I don’t care. It should be the picture of EVERY year.
